Upon the first boot, there is plenty of hard drive activity while the Info LED flashes. (I assume it is unpacking hddrootfs, so the manual unpack is not really necessary.) It will reboot when done, fully working.

Upon the first boot, there is plenty of hard drive activity while the Info LED flashes. (I assume it is unpacking hddrootfs, so the manual unpack is not really necessary.) It will reboot when done, fully working.

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Logging in to the web interface (admin:password), I had to change the language and character set, as it was initially in Japanese. In addition, the storage space was not available, but this was fixed by formatting, again via the web interface.

== Notes ==

== Notes ==

This does not perform any actual flashing. Prior to this, I had used Gentoo, and its installation did not involve any flashing either, so this simple recovery via partitions and files was enough.

This does not perform any actual flashing. Prior to this, I had used Gentoo, and its installation did not involve any flashing either, so this simple recovery via partitions and files was enough.

Revision as of 12:46, 31 December 2010

To reinstall the original firmware on a LS Live v1 using only Linux, here is what I did.

Filesystems

Files

I used the firmware HS_DHGL_2.10.zip. Copy the following files into the boot partition:

hddrootfs.buffalo.updated
initrd.buffalo
uImage.buffalo

On the boot partition (sda1), do

$ date > rootfs_ok

This forces an ordinary boot, instead of EM mode.

I also unpacked hddrootfs.buffalo.updated onto the root partition (sda2), not sure if this is really necessary.

Booting

Upon the first boot, there is plenty of hard drive activity while the Info LED flashes. (I assume it is unpacking hddrootfs, so the manual unpack is not really necessary.) It will reboot when done, fully working.

Logging in to the web interface (admin:password), I had to change the language and character set, as it was initially in Japanese. In addition, the storage space was not available, but this was fixed by formatting, again via the web interface.

Notes

This does not perform any actual flashing. Prior to this, I had used Gentoo, and its installation did not involve any flashing either, so this simple recovery via partitions and files was enough.